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[size=15pt]Let Assume that Buhari is bad for Nigeria. My question becomes who then?

Is it GEJ?
A clueless, corrupt and insincere man. He has been tested as a deputy governor, Governor, Vice president and President and he failed woefully. All that his supporters live on is empty promises and excuses. GEJ is a commander in chief of the armed forces that cannot fight Boko Haram. All he does is trying to paint Buhari as it's Sponsor. If Buhari is the mask behind Boko Haram, what has GEJ done to unmask and punish him? Nothing. GEJ also has proved to be a triablist. Ask the militants across the Niger Delta and they will tell you the amnesty programme has been hijacked by IJAWS.

Is it Tinubu?

No. He is a proven corrupt master that cannot clean up the country. He has failed to allow Fashola work as he should in Lagos. I have heard rumors of past drug dealings.

Is it Rochas?

No. His past is unclean. An ex 19 man. You get what I mean? I am Igbo mind you.

Is it Buhari?
Belonging to the generation of my fathers, he may likely see Nigeria from the prism of a typical Northerner. But he is a very sincere man. He is also very principled and fearless. he has been proven not to be corrupt. As a former head of state; he did little to deny my Igbo people our due share. As PTF chairman; he succeeded in the North (close to 100%), he scored a credit in the West; but may have failed in the East. One thing I am sure of is that as a President of Nigeria; Buhari will never be a supporter of corruption. He will allow our institutions to work. I am also sure that there is no way under a democratic rule, Buhari will rule Nigeria alone. He must take either a Yoruba/Igbo/South-south Vice president. The Senate and the House of Representative with the governors will be there to check him. I therefore cannot see him getting away with any harm plotted against the Christian south (if I am to believe the naysayers). If I get the rule of law and a less corrupt government which I can beat my chest and claim Buhari will give Nigeria; half of Nigeria's problem will be solved. Based on this I can consider Buhari.

Any other candidate? There are probably thousands of capable candidate in our country. Even among the rotten group of PDP politicians are some good people. But the problem is that they may not be known or lack the broad-based support to make it to the President. So Buhari remains my quickest route to salvage what is left in my country before GEJ/PDP/rotten leadership of ACN/rotten members of CPC finish us all up.

The challenge is not Buhari getting the President. Honestly, the challenge for us here is to ensure that when he gets it that the likes of Tinubu and Rochas who we know their anticidents will not turn-out to be another IBB. We know how IBB undermined Buhari/Idiagbon government and successfully overthrew them. I am sure Tinubu/Rochas and co have more up their sleeves than just rallying around Buhari. If we are smart and honest youths that truly wants the good of our father land, we just take up these corrupt masters. We just play them in their game. Let all support them to elect Buhari, after which we enter the stage 2 of the fight. This is how heros and smart people think.

They plan ahead and not live in the past. 1966 is in the past. I have read those stuff and cried as an Igbo boy. I have tried to analyses and understand the intrigues at play. My concern is not even today but the future.

When people were trouping to elect GEJ 2011, I was the lone voice in the wilderness among my friends and a lot of fellow Igbos. Today, they have come to realise the mistakes they made. But the fact remain that we have lost the 4 years out of their short-sightedness. let not lose another 4 years and the lives and resources that may follow. Take another 4 years out of my life and I will be getting closer to my grave.

I want to see Nigeria work in my life time.[/size]

In Anambra, they have villages that do not kill snake. Even in Europe, you cannot kill animals like that.

Our culture must be respected unless when it goes contrary to reason.

I am sick of Ignorant Christians who hardly know they difference between their right and the left hand dictating our what is acceptable and what is not in our tradition.

Bleep stupid senseless copy-carts in the name of Civilisation.

I have witnessed so many crude European Cultures; yet the Brainwashed fools here will never understand the world we are in

Some of us are from the East/West/South-south worked tirelessly for Buhari in 2011. I hope Nigerians are seeing a better picture now and can join us to send the political roques accross all the parties far from our Government.

Get it, PDP is rotten with very few and limited Good men if any. ACN is not too much better than PDP; ANPP is as bad. CPC is just like any other party.

But if survival instinct can make them give us Buhari that we believe in come 2015 as APC candidate; it will be for us to support Buhari.

Buhari wining the election is not the end; the end is making sure that the smart rogues will not hijack his government or assassinate him.

I do not see Tinubu supporting Buhari in all sincerity, because he is as corrupt as the worst PDP men; and will be one of the first victims of an anti-corrupt Buhari government. I believe they may want to pull another fast one on him; the way IBB pulled one on him and Idiagon.

So, please Nigerian youths, for the good of our father land, let not just support Buhari, but be prepared to protect him against the big/smart corrupters of our land.

ItsModella: Philosophy
History
Fishery
Zoology (how someone could go ahead to get a PhD in this field is beyond me)
Forestry

Philosophy is the foundation of knowledge. I may not say much about it as a course; but it remains a beautiful knowledge to acquire. For those that know, all good leaders are Philosophers.

khiaa: Her husband has already broken up the marriage. How much pain do you people expect a woman to continue to take when her husband neither loves or respects her? The husband has already told her to leave the marriage. It's funny how nobody seems to put the blame where it belongs(on that s-l-u-t of a husband she has) because in your world what a man does is justified.

Why can't this woman divorce the man? I got it, a typical Niaja lady; want to eat her cake and have it.

If the man is not good for you, leave him. I guess you like his money you never contributed for in any way but hate his ways.

Search your self.

I don't see what the website can do; the Ogas on top just wanted to share money. The site is a way to make money for such

What the young man did is bad and condemnable; But also killing people by hanging is crude and unforgiveable.

The politicians in the country are idiots. They all deserve a worse fate than this armed robber. They have killed millions by the difficult economic conditions they have created in our land.

We also should have advance like in Europe where CAPITAL PUNISHMENT has been outlawed.

The law should be a reformer and not a life taker

Smooyis: Stupid. ObJ is better than GeJ.

GEJ is a common criminal; he has supervised the dying a so many Nigerians from poverty and crises and deserve to die

[size=15pt]Nigerians deserve what they get. The fools that voted a clueless idoit as our President are still yet to understand the mistake they made.

I don't care what happens to General Buhari; he had had a good life at over 70 years.

I care for the fate that is befelling my country.

A country of 160 millions being intentionally misled by a gang of criminals. Today at the head is a GEJ who shares no vision.

I am sure Buhari is not behind Boko Haram. I am sure even Jonathan and major PDP frontmen know this.

But they choose to "play politics" with our fate; and my people with little sense of understanding are still believing them.

I did tell them not to vote GEJ; I have never voted PDP since 2003 when I discovered they are gang of Idiots.

O God if only you can protect those of us; who had tried to ask sincere question about Nigeia; those of us who have invested to make Nigeria better.

God, if you open the eyes of my people who are being manipulated so that we all can work in unison to purge my country of the charlatans; or ,though regretable, if you can send the crisis in our land to consuume only those that have wilfully refused to see the true picture that our enemies are GEJ and his PDP gang of Criminals; Tinubu and his other unclean politicians from all other parties.

God let thy kingdom come quickly because my people are dying; God Buhari has been vilified by the very people he stand to save; the very people he cried for; the very people who should be joining him in to salvage what is left of our country; God only you can see the hear; open our eyes to see our problems and give us guts to selflessly confront them. [/size]

Orikinla: [size=18pt]But the poor are the most ungrateful people in Nigeria.
It is not worth it doing your best to help them.
Lest we forget, majority of the greediest and most corrupt people in government came from poor families. I have a theory that their fears of insecurity and poverty are responsible for their abnormal greed that makes them corrupt.[/size]

You are yet to appreciate the impact of poverty on their psyche. Poverty destroys one's humanity and makes him an animal. They behave the way they do because of the poverty they have exprienced not because they are created bad people.

The corrupt men in power who created the grounds for poverty to exist should be held responsible

BeraBera: Really? How sure are you? You think Jonathan and the SSS have the time to be looking for who to kill, Dino for that matter. I bet you they have better challenges to tackle than to stage assassination. If u think the SSS has any issues with Dino, is it not for them to invite him for questioning, or arrest him? Assassination ko assassination ni. Skoh!

Do you really know what you are saying or are you one of them?

Nigerians beware, inside Jonathan's inner circle is a gang of killers. They made attempt on my just before 2011 elections. Their ancor man was a pastor residence in Lagos that bears Yoruba name as first name and Igbo name as surname who lives off VI-Ajah expressway. These people are evil

inene: Let me also place it on record that my Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye has not been associated with any scandal of any sort though he is leading the largest Pentecostal Church in Nigeria. He is a man of integrity and servant of the most high God. By any measurement he is a rich man in any currency because if all members of the Redeemed Christian Church of God decide to give just one Naira, he would be mega rich.

Sorry, Don't compare the incomparable. Kumuyi has not bought a JET yet or associated himself with rogue politicians like your master Adeboye. Kumuyi has not lobbied and got millions in free import duties as your master from the same rogues in-power that are killing us.

shymexx: Wasn't the same woman best buddies with Nigeria's worst leader ever, IBB??

Stupid Nigerians!!

Why won't they be paddies when they imposed him on us and used him to destroy all our productive capacities, our industries and our economy via SAP.

They tried the SAP thing with Shagari and Buhari and met resistance; until they brought in a drug-infested rogue called IBB and used him to destroy us.

The way the comments here has gone show the general depravity of we Southerners. Few of us can be objective enough to see the truth when it comes from an Hausa man. Buhari has given a well-detailed veiw of the problems with Nigeria but u guys will never see the truth because ETHNIC-ISM covered your thinking.

Only God will save us from the majority in our midst who has chosen to be fools. These same fools when deprived by the same criminal government they helped into power will troop to church on Sundays to pray for solutions that will never come.

A true case of the old Jews who waited ages for a messiah but failed to recognise him when he was in their midst.

Nigeria, it is unfortunate, we are born in you; and must be dragged back by the backward and archaic thinking of the majority fools that constitute you. As they said, the speed of a dull boy, is the speed of a class.

Networkmaster: He is not loved by all his people my friend, do not be deceived by what you see.
Most of his people do not like him. I have at least three of my colleagues from Venezuela who talk ill of him. This means he is not what you see
on the screen. You can never understand politicians my dear.

Those you have meet (I guess in US) are among the elites who have a lot to hate him for. He denied them their privileges and so they must hate him. The masses of Venezuela, the poor are happy with him. If the guy is corrupt, US and their machinery would have dug them up and pasted for all of us to see

Nuzo':
Hugo grew very popular among some Venezuelans due to his opposing stance to the west and capitalism. Just like telling poor Nigerians that you want to share Dangote's wealth them.
He played this politics well.

Aside from that, Hugo...just like Gaddafi, Sadam, Osama, Kim jun, Abacha lived a hypocritical life. They partied with world's sexiest women, drank the best wines, rode on luxurious vehicles and stole billions of dollars...while their people wallowed in perjury.

The only thing they had going for them was just to go to the media and say "the west is evil".

You have no evidence that the man lived a hypocritical life. If he does, the West with all their machinery would have dug it our to the public domain.

Hugo Chavez lived for the poor but the Rich guys never liked him because he denied them their looting apparatus.

Do you expect the stealing Americans to tell you he is a good leader?

Ignorance. Those that fight for us we will never appreciate because we are ignorant.

markingday: This is almost completely wrong. As a computer scientist, I can assure you that 99.99999% of inventions in computers were by white Americas and Europeans. Fact. We need to stop hanging on to glory of thousands of years ago, that cannot be proven. What have we contributed to the modern world?

Boy, you cannot contribute to the modern world because we do not have a home. We have been dehumanised by the West since 500 years ago. Knowing that the modern inventions all started less than 200 years ago; how can dehumanised people invent?

Go read about the European discoveries and how they destroyed Africa; read about slavery, colonization; Flag Independence and neo-colonialism. Until we defeat these things and have a working society; we cannot invent.

God did not create us inferior to the Whites; what is happening today is an accident of history. Egypt as recorded in the bible at a time when the whites were living in caves was a black country; forget that the Arab came and chased us downwards.

Our fathers civilised before the stealing whites. It was gun and shipping that made the White lord over us. They over powered with their guns, destroyed our cities; took us into slavery and stopped our civilization.

When we gain our freedom; we will start to evolve again and will surely catch up with them.

shiftbutton: Another left winger leaves the stage.

Can you do yourself a simple honour of reading up what left stands for in politics before taking side?

Tribute to a Hero

You lived and died a liberator of the oppressed; you fought for the poor and impoverished of your country; you defeated neo-colonial imperialist who stole the resource that God bestowed for the well being of your people and made life unbearable;.

To your source, your creator – our common source, you go back a hero of the masses. As you settle in good fortune which your struggle and sacrifices here on earth earned for you, in the great beyond; remember to put a word on behalf of the suffering ignorant masses of African continents. Remind him of our desperate need of a person of your kind, who can sincerely guide us to freedom; plead with him to grant us, the living, the grace to witness the transformation of African continent for the better in our life time.

As you transmute to the great beyond, as you metamorphose to a form we are yet to comprehend, help with every power you can muster in extending the freedom and liberty you inspired for not only the people of your country, but the land of South America. Help us to make a strong case that Africa’s time should come; that my people should be free.

It is not uncommon that the agents of imperialism have a hand in your early demise; but we know that whatever they can conjure in their evil way is allowed by nature for the greater good of nature and mankind. Let them not celebrate yet; for like a seed; into the soil you go to sprout out the living tree that will give rise to millions of your kind.

Adieu my President, adieu our hero; adieu a man of uncommon courage, adieu a man of love.

Adieu Hugo Chavez!!!

Church chiefs have launched an investigation after an Italian priest set fire to a photograph of former Pope Benedict XVI in front of dozens of stunned worshippers.

Father Andrea Maggi, 67, ignited the picture during a sermon, saying that Benedict had "abandoned" the Catholic Church.

He then went on to compare him to Costa Concordia captain Francesco Schettino, who has been accused of fleeing his post and leaving passengers on the stranded cruise ship.

Father Andrea, a priest for more than 40 years, told the packed service at Santo Stefano church in Castelvittorio near Imperia: "I'm doing this because he has not been a Pope, he has abandoned us. A shepherd never leaves his flock."

Parishioners including children, looked on amazed as the picture of Benedict, who resigned last week after eight years as Pontiff was enveloped in flames before the priest let it drop to the ground and burn itself out.

Father Andrea is unrepentant, and said: "I'd said that I would burn his picture the day he left and that's what I did. I'm glad what I did has caused such an outcry - I don't have maize in my head. We are not in a communist state.

"I'm not interested in his reasons for leaving. The job of Pope is for life. He should not have left. He's behaved just like (Francesco) Schettino. Where is the proof of his faith?

"The Pope said this was the year of faith and he then leaves his post as head of the church."

Bishop Alberto Maria Careggio, of the diocese, said: "This was an abominable action. I'm mortified by the actions of Father Andrea who in the past has always been a very generous and sensible priest. I'm arranging a meeting with him as soon as possible."

Benedict said he made the shock decision - the first time a Pope has resigned in 600 years - because he "felt tired".

However by stepping down he has angered many Catholics and some senior Church chiefs as the job is for life.
Captain Francesco Schettino (C) of cruise ship Costa Concordia The priest compared Pope Benedict to Captain Francesco Schettino

Locals in his parish, which nestles in a picturesque medieval hilltop village, have described him as "very strict and ultra orthodox".

Before the incident Father Maggi, who has been a priest there for five years, had been complaining bitterly about Benedict's decision.

Gianstefano Orengo, mayor of Castel Vittorio, who witnessed the incident, said: "Certainly everyone knew Father Andrea was upset and angry at Benedict's announcement.

"It was a shocking thing to see. I know it may be a difficult time for him but it was still a serious thing to do."

He pulled out a picture of the Pope and then used a nearby candle to ignite it as he started his sermon.

"It lasted a minute or so and he then said Benedict had acted in a similar fashion to (Francesco) Schettino who left his post when the Costa Concordia struck rocks and with passengers still needed to be saved.

"People were shocked and started complaining and several including myself left the service. There was no justification at all for it even if there are mitigating circumstances."

Meanwhile cardinals in Rome have begun their discussions ahead of setting a date for the start of the conclave which will elect the next Pope, with the selection process expected to begin in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel next week

http://news.sky.com/story/1059777/pope-photo-burnt-church-launches-probe

back2sender: Thanks Mccoy, i have always lambasted GEJ-check my previous post because i feel he can do better than what we have now and he should stop protecting his ministers that are not performing and allow them to feel the heat as well. In reality iam more anti PDP when it comes to issues

But what am seeing in Fashola of recent is just too bad,so its now a crime to be poor. so its only the poor that should make sacrifaces while the rich keep looting the treasury. Come and see the ESTATES and LANDS Tinubu has in Lekki you will be amazed or how he forcefully collected ogombo peoples land. why cant fashola relocate them in such estates that he and his master has, abi you think sey those people are happy in thier present conditions?

Fashola too has an estate on Mobil Road(settling himself) behind RCCG Tabernacle of david for those familiar with that axis or who does not know Hitech belongs to Tinubu, handling lekki toll project.

I have had encounter with LASG services and iam not happy about it , last year i was turned back with my dads corpse february 28 to be precise on the excuse that the mortuary was undergoing renovation but they where accepting people,just because we didnt SETTLE. Why am i saying this is because fashola comes on air and say lagos is working and i wonder in what ways is lagos working? given the huge resources in lagos.

For those saying they should go back to thier village

-Why didnt those supporting fashola say this in previous years even before the commencement of democracy? that non indigent should go back to thier states

-The developments in lagos was as a result of lagos been the Nations Capital in the past- Federal Govt made lagos what it is today, one might be tempted to say Awo made Western region(Ibadan only)what it is today, in as much as i will not want to contest this most of the developments in Lagos took place during the Military Era. Federal funds was used for this development.

- During the Subdidy strike there was no differentiation because the demonstration favored ACN

The development that people has been throwing dart back n forth including yours truly are infrastructures and not empowering human capital.

lASTMA,KAI are made up of TOUTS, using my money(TAX) to pay his private army inflicting pains on tax payers.

he has gone around closing down markets that is his new occupation, Ajah marhet was closed down before ladipo and the question i keep asking is that this market people pay environmental levies , so what is this money used for?.

When you go near the park you hear words like;

Owo Chairman
Owo Fashola
Owo Baba(Tinubu)
Owo boys- errand boys.

This money are paid in the morning,afternoon and evening by the bus operators so why wont transport cost be high in lagos,will fashola say he his not aware of this.

See the queue for BRT buses that is a subject for another day.

Thanks. Nigeria needs more of people like you. Keep it up. We will certainly brace the tape; because destiny is ours

Can someone post his speech for us to read and understand more of his thoughts. That is what matters; and what we should concentrate on.

Moukafoam: Psychaitric patient on the loose

Thanks. I admit the errors in what I wrote, but you should not I am at work, but is being distracted by the hardship in our land and the irresponsibility of our government.

My prayer is that you should document you thoughts and your believe so that one day, when the hardship will hit you; be it by lack of jobs; security or in whatever way, you can realise how you are part of the problem with our country.

Let it be known that refusing to be holistic in solving our collective problem and taking the easy way out in the manners that Fashola is doing will never be a solution. The poor deserve some protection. the government owe them jobs, housing, etc in the same manners it owes us security and infrastructure.

Destroying your poor, sending them to early grave and neglecting them will, never be a way to clean up Lagos. The present approach is like covering a wound. The solution is to clean the wounds and give a comprehensive treatment.

While PDP is not an option, Fashola and his ACN group is making it impossible for our people to see clearly the difference between and Irresponsible gangsters as PDP and what a responsible government can be. To those that know, ACN and PDP are two sides of an evil coin.

God will deliver Nigerians when the appropriate time.

Orikinla: [size=18pt]I hate it for anyone to live in inhuman conditions.
It breaks my heart to see humans living like dogs in the slums.
But the worst is for people living in slums to have children in the slums and bring innocent children to suffer untold hardship.
Nobody should be born poor.
And that is the choice poor people can make by not having children until they can afford to provide basic things for their education and welfare.
Any couple who cannot guarantee good education and welfare of children should not have children and should not be allowed to have children until they are financially capable and stable to start a family.[/size]

I put it to you that most that most of those people never wanted or even merited their condition.

What has your government done to better their lives? How many of us have your government sent to such penurious condition daily by the wicked policies of our government? As one that cares, how have you tried to positively influence our Government for a change?

We are all doomed in this country, bet me. Today, it is hitting the down-trodden; very soon, it will hit always. Even Boko haram have not excluded you wicked and lazy elites in their killings

Angyee: Some of the comments on here are proof of why the US is succeeding in it's agenda.

Some people have asked, what is in it for the US? This is why the US and other countries in the west succeed. 2 problems that beset Nigerians are lack of discipline and short-sightedness. With Nigerians it must be now now, immediately, we lack planning capability. The US doesn't look for immediate gain, they interested in long term long lasting gain. That's why we can't see what is in it for US. Let me show you with few examples just what they are gaining and still stand to gain.
1. A Nigerian has a farm in an African country that is completely self sustainable. He powers his electricity, he makes his own fertilizer etc, not a single thing goes to waste there. No, this is not them say, I know someone who visited there and saw it with their eyes (will not say relationship to son b4 CIA goes to terrorize person...lol). Why is he not in Nigeria? Well he offered Nigeria 1st, they refused, their problem? What is on it for me NOW. So he left and this country, don't remember name gave him land, in return he trains a certain no. Of their citizens free of charge every year. Do you know how many jobs he has created a d how much money he is saving this country?
2. Remember Groundnut pyramids of yester-year?
3. A Nigerian in US offered to set up a factory in Nigeria all he asked for was land...he would fund everything else from his pocket. Again, Nigeria refused, why? They wanted him to grease their pockets first.
4. Think of all the natural resources we have, imagine if we had mining corporations handling these.

Look at all of tees, for starters, think of how many jobs and how much income would be generated if we created at least one of these in every state in Nigeria. Now imagine how much wealthier we would become. Now imagine the power Nigeria would wield.

That's not all oh. I know someone who works in oil industry in UK, he said roughly half of Nigeria's oil is unaccounted for(not exaggerated, it is documented). They know, it's not hidden. But there is no significant oil spill to explain this, wanna know why? Because the so-called 'unaccounted' oil goes to people like George Bush, Tony Blair, Bill Clinton and generally helps further the US, no lie. Also US has oil, some of it is not mined yet. Why? You see they want to drain every other country in the world of their oil and when they are done they will be the sole producer of oil thereby giving them a modicum of control. How? Yes it's true 1st world countries are gradually moving to using clean energy sources electricity etc, but 3rd world still has a way to go. Imagine all 3rd world countries drained of oil, they need oil, they have to buy from the only country that has any US, US don't need to worry about dwindling supply of oil because they would have moved to using other sources of energy. Do you see any gain yet? Also the so-called Libyan uprising. When it first started, I was sceptical of Ghaddafi's claims if western intrusion. Now I'm a believer. The west instigated it. Yes, Ghadaffi was a dictator, but he is the kind of person I would not mind having in my corner, because he stuck to his ideals to the death. Do you know how Ghadaffi protected Libya from western exploitation? Every resource was used to help Libya, do you also know the 1st deal the new Libyan authorities dined with US? Access to Libyan oil wells, Ghadaffi had refused vehemently to allow it while he was alive and that was cramping the US style. Same with Iraq, Saddam wouldn't let the US have his oil so they killed him. See a pattern here. Nigerian rulers seem to have decided to roll over and bark like good doggies rather than stand up. Till today no weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq...I'm not surprised.

Even Americans will tell you a lot of things that happen are scripted by their government. See they don't have to set up these organizations, they just fund them and the by-product of the activities of these organizations help them work undercover towards their goals. The Bible says that God told Ishmael he would be in constant enmity with his brother's, hence the reason Muslims are always prepared to fight, US is simply taking advantage of that.

Just stop for a second, imagine all the people fighting in different areas of Nigeria come together as one. To fight outsiders, who will stand, with the massive population Nigeria has? Feed, clothe and train just a quarter of Nigeria's population to be an Army even America will not be able to stand, because from time immemorial African's and Nigerians have been stronger. Do you know that half of the innovations the west comes up with are discovered or engineered by African's mainly Nigerians? Have a look see for yourself.

So what do they stand to gain? Imagine a country with all our resources with all the jobs created I mentioned above, proper infrastructure created from resources gained, all our brightest return from abroad and all the inventions US are getting from them they start designing for Nigeria, our manpower trained even more effectively than US, stringer and larger army because we have a bigger population...tell me what country can withstand this?

As long as Nigeria is divided we will never accomplish any of this, this is the US ultimate gain. They are fundng our continued division, Nigeria wake up before it's too late.

I love you babe for your God-given knowledge

dare2think: Brazil, China, Turkey and India are fast emerging economies too, is the CIA sponsoring terrorism there too?

I understand imperialism and its connotations, What I am still waiting to get from you is substantive proof that the CIA is sponsoring Boko haram and what they stand to gain from their activities when our government can heed to their call anyway. We are not Libya or Zimbabwe that gives the west any tough time, we are weak towards the west so why the need to go through that extra effort to get what they can get and what they are already getting!

We are weak today. But these people are always futuristic in their thinking. Their fears are not that of today but that of tomorrow. That is why they want to make sure that our tomorrow is destroyed in securing theirs.

akinwun: You guyz are not being realistic at all. Are we saying boko boys that will all too readily cast aspersions on anything called west is now dininng and whinning with one of the west leading power, to destroy anything westerner in africa?. What a conspiracy theory

Yea, good question. They way CIA works; they link up through several stages. CIA will never make direct contact with Boko Haram. Their will be several stages of linkages. From CIA, to one multinational, to several Intentional businessmen, to local Businessmen and them to the ring leaders. I inferred this from one attack they made on Fidel Castro where they paid some International businessmen who later paid some drug barrons (that were earlier chased out of Cuba); and they later paid the guys that will pull the trigger.

If the guys have succeed, the story would have been at most that the Drug barons killed Castrol in revenge; not knowing that there was an international Businessman and CIA on a higher level.

Such is the world of CIA

Red-Light:
why nato? cant they act like egyptians or syrians?
and there goes the conspiration theories again.... azasi belives pdp is boko, some people thinks its buhari and now some people think its CIA

all these nonsense burns down to whatever u wanna believe... but one thing is certain the 90% of these is based on ideology
am not disputing the fact that Cia might be using boko haram to their advantage but making it look like they are the major player is way out of it


Pdp also uses boko haram to its advantage by gaining sympathy and divert peoples attention from their corruptions

the north uses boko haram to demand from federal government etc ...

iranians are uses boko haram to further the cause of islamism in africa etc

Usa uses it further gain ground in nigeria

the list goes on and on

so putting everything on CIA is absolutely rubbish

In politics, there is always plots inside plots. While you may be out plotting; you may be suprised to findout that you have been programmed to plot in the manners you plot by a superior or accidental plots. That is the way plots and human relationships work. That is why nobody can predict politics.

Even when we know the power and the extent CIA can go; they have failed in somany places. Like in Cuba and Iran. That's why they keep telling me and you that Iran is an axis of evil

CIA and Nigeria’s stability
December 20, 2012 by Odilim Enwegbara

The Central Intelligence Agency was established to scuttle and derail potential challengers to America’s economic hegemony. Choking and paralysing most potential challengers result from subjecting these countries to endless social crisis, hardship, torture, fear, and psychological warfare. And confirming this strategy, former CIA Director of Plans, Richard Bissell, said, ”The CIA’s interface with the rest of the world needs to be better promoted through our friends in foreign governments….We need repression if we hope to divide these societies into owners and slaves. We need to put the people under continual duress and in a perpetual state of imbalance, so that confused and demoralised, apathy on a massive scale will result.”

Populated by psychopaths and neo-fascist occultists, this ultra-clandestine secret society has its operations likened to the mad sadistic-hedonism of Caligula, where the initiated maintain permanent silence. But should anyone muster the courage to reveal what goes on in the CIA’s underworld, embarrassing blackmail, intimidation, disappearance or assassination awaits the offender. Raising puppets and fronts to be planted in governments and sensitive private sectors around the world enables the CIA to control most nations. Also with such astonishing secrecy, sleeper operatives freely operate in spaces like universities, colleges, mega-churches, nightclubs, public parks, hotels and hospitals.

That this monster created by President Harry Truman in 1947 on the insistence of the Rockefeller brothers is an empire within an empire shouldn’t be surprising, especially given the freehand with which it operates. Little wonder, even though officially financed through the budgets of the Pentagon and Departments of State and Justice, thriving in its dirty world, the CIA’s unofficial financing is believed to come from money laundering, terrorism, extrajudicial killings, drug trafficking, prostitution, kidnapping, human trafficking, gambling and illegal arms and oil sales. With this, the CIA is above the law.

Home to the world’s best and most sought-after oil, the CIA-led western vultures have schemed, cajoled, bullied, cheated, sabotaged and mercilessly and ruthlessly controlled Nigeria. And Washington has no regrets for having turned this would-have-been African giant into a desolate state. Or shouldn’t the price of plundering its $3 trillion oil wealth since 1958 worth these Machiavellian-Darwinian fittest actions? In this western-led survival of the fittest world, should it be a problem that the weak is terrorised by the powerful, let alone eavesdropping on their governments’ communications? Why should Washington bother that the CIA’s beaming electromagnetic frequencies and creating electromagnetic fences could modify the mental state of top government officials in these weak states, especially when that benefits Washington? Or who cares if the CIA’s discharging of psychotronic generators could cause central nervous system damage and Trisomy 21, a chromosome abnormality associated with severe intellectual and personality impairment?

Shouldn’t the taking of our few patriots hostage to smoothen western looters’ operations be what the CIA should be doing? That some morally bankrupt Nigerians are used to dominate its economic and political affairs isn’t okay. Why should it bother the strongest that as a result of these, Nigeria is today a desolate country, a graveyard of disenfranchised population with broken dreams?

No doubt, Joseph Nye was right when he revealed that actually the strongest export to the weak totalitarian democracy is a dummy democracy where not the elected politicians, but some smuggled in technocrats, run the economy. How America today imposes its puppets on us was how Britain imposed its puppets on America. This led Thomas Jefferson in 1800 to angrily warn, “Single act of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers too plainly proves a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing us to slavery.”

Of course, being angry because your country’s wealth is being plundered by a ‘big thief’ is understandable. But, shouldn’t the discovery that some worse mayhem has been committed by the same thief be a source of relief? Or how should disgracing a sitting French President, Charles de Gaulle, out of office in April 1969 for daring to challenge the dollar’s global de facto excesses be qualified? What about the overthrow of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in August 1953 simply for nationalising the Iranian oil industry? Or was Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenez not overthrown in 1954 by the CIA because he was reforming his country’s land; a policy that would have reduced the land occupied by Rockefeller’s United Fruit Company in the country?

Have we forgotten the ‘Jesus-like’ torture and brutal murder of Patrice Émery Lumumba in January 1961 because he was promoting economic nationalism in his newly independent Congo? What about the case of Africa’s foremost continental nationalist, Kwame Nkrumah, of Ghana, who was overthrown in February 1966 and poisoned in April 1972 for dreaming to have a United States of Africa? Getting finally home: Wasn’t Murtala Muhammed assassinated in February 1976 simply because he was championing the nationalisation of Nigeria’s oil industry?

But there’s a take home optimism for us. That is, that rather than the CIA advancing Nigeria’s breakup, it’s actually the reverse that it’s pursuing. That can’t be truer, given that the CIA’s trademark is deception. With this said, let’s now proceed to rationalise why it is true.

First, dissolving the present Nigeria prejudiced toward promoting Washington’s imperial interests would mean Washington shooting itself in the foot; afterall Nigeria’s rivalry status as a result of leading the ECOWAS Monitoring Group has since been removed with the formation of the Africa Crises Response Initiative by Washington as a parallel military counterforce.

Second, rather than breaking up Nigeria or helping to block China’s growing influence in Africa’s largest oil and gas producer, in fact, will achieve the opposite. Or shouldn’t the-would-be-emergent micro nation-states be more nationalist interest-driven and more pro-China in their business dealings since they should be more interested in maximising national self-interests? Or is the present scramble for puppets and protégée positions by Nigerian leaders not more beneficial to Washington?

Third, in the world of realpolitik, shouldn’t the CIA be more afraid of an Igbo nation-state, a Yoruba nation-state, a Northern Nigeria nation-state, and a Niger Delta nation-state than today’s Nigeria, at least given that they will fiercely oppose the United States looting their natural resources? In short, the dissolution of Nigeria would also mean for Washington the end of divide and rule, since the microstates could emerge indivisible states.

Finally, in all this confusion, let’s not forget that the present-day crisis-ridden Nigeria has benefitted Washington enormously. Not only Nigeria’s whopping $10 billion spent just in two years to fight Boko Haram went into US technology equipment procurement purchases, but also the training of Nigeria’s antiterrorist personnel and the hiring of FBI field experts. The huge cost is not only money, but also America’s unlimited access to Nigeria’s top national security files and archives.

While we couldn’t do much to stop this ever-powerful modern-day Caesar, the truth is that nature is already revenging on our behalf. Looking around today! What do we see than that the same way original Caesar ended that is how the present-day fake Caesar is about ending? Vocally speaking against this Machiavellian-Darwinian attitude, Buddha reminds us that ”Whoever tries to seek happiness through hurting others can neither find happiness nor his children.” Also one of the laws of physics which tells that action and reaction are equal and opposite is already catching up with the American Empire. Today, America’s vast empire built on plunder is fast crumbling, and soon the world will wake to a Chinese century. When that happens, the speed with which the world will forget that there was once a roaring CIA is unimaginable.

- Enwegbara, an international financial analyst wrote in from Abuja via basil_enwegbara@yahoo.com 07038501486
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